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The Community Food Movement: Sydney Environment Institute’s seminar explores movement’s needs

The Community Food Movement: In linking the academic discussion around community food systems, a Sydney Environment Institute seminar highlights the need to evaluate what we do and for communication to bring together a fractured movement...

The Community Food Movement: TAI findings interesting though with just a little disconnect from experience

Last year's Australia Institute research into home and community food production in Australia is a useful contribution. There are just a few findings that disconnect from observation and experience, though…

The Community Food Movement: Food security — whose responsibility?

A recent article by farmer, Tammi Jonas on the website of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance raises issues about our dual food system…

The Community Food Movement: Seven big challenges

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT — Here’s seven challenges for our emerging community food movement…

The Community Food Movement: The birth of AFSA

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT— In late 2010 in response to a federal government proposal for a national food plan, a new organisation came into being to redirect government bias towards big agribusiness…

The Community Food Movement: The coming of the advocates

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT — the arrival of food advocacy organisations signifies that food in Australia is now an economic and political issue.

The Community Food Movement: The social precursors

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT — It is to earlier social movements that we look for the origins of today’s community food movement.

The Community Food Movement: An alternative — the community food system

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT: Permaculture co-inventor, David Holmgren said that for most people the supermarket is their larder. Woolworths and Coles might be where most Australians buy their food, however an alternative, parallel food system is in gestation. It was here that the community food movement was born…

The Community Food Movement: What is the food system?

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT… A social movement around food is emerging in Australia, and what better place to start understanding it than a look at our food supply chain…

The household economy: time for reimagining?

I KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING when she got the big drum out from the back of the cupboard. “I”m going to bottle those cherries we got yesterday”, Fiona said. “So I’m cleaning up the kitchen first to make space. Let’s get that stuff out of the drying rack and those utensils off the stove”. I […]

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